Fireproof construction



(No Model.)

W. ORR. FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION.

No. 550,801. Patented Dec. 3,1895.

ANDREW BLIRHAMJMOTD'UTMQWASHIMGION. D17.

NITED STATEs ATENT OFFICE.

l VILLIAM ORR, OF TRENTON, NEV JERSEY.

FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,801, dated December 3, 1895..

Application filed April 1, 1896. Serial No. 543,952. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ORR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton,

county of Mercer, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fireproof Constructions, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved fireproof construction especially applicable to that class known as solid partitions, consisting of a central frame for the support of plastic material, which is applied so as to form a plaster wall on both sides of the central frame, the especial object of the invention being to provide a strong, light, and cheap construction.

As the invention can best be understood from an illustration and description of constructions embodying the same, such constructions will now be described in detail in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, showing the preferred form of embodiment of the invention and certain modifications thereof, and the features forming the invention will then be specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of the partition before the application of the plastic material. Fig. i is a cross section of the completed construction, taken on line 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. and a are detail views on a larger scale, showing the construction of hanger and clip for the framesupporting bars. Fig. 5 shows a modification with other means for adjusting the tension of the lathing-rods; Fig. 6 is a detail view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification employing the adjustable clips, but omitting the frame-supporting bars.

In the drawings, A B are respectively the ceiling and floor beams between which the partition is to extend, these beams being shown as of the common flanged I form, although it will be understood that the invention is applicable also to beams of other forms. To the adjacent flanges of the opposite beams are secured framesupporting bars 0, which in the preferred form shown consist of fiat metal bars, these bars preferably being supported by means enabling them to be adjusted toward the beams, so as to adjust the tension of the partition-frame, which in the preferred form the center of the hanger and beam, which re ceives the bolt 3, passing through the bars C and by which the latter is secured to the hanger, the other end of the hanger passing through a clip 11, hooked over the other flange of the beam and being adjustably held thereon by a nut at, so that by turning the nut 4 the hanger may be strained toward the beam, thus shifting the bars C and increasing the tension on the rods D. Upon the rods D is supported the metallic lathing E, which may be of any suitable form, either wire or perforated metal, woven-wire lathing being shown tied to the rods by wire ties 5, as is common in such constructions. Upon the lathing and rods D is supported the plastic material E, which completes the partition. It will be seen that this construction is very strong,

while simple, cheap, and convenient of manipulation in construction, so that it may be readily and rapidly formed without special skill on the part of the operative.

WVhile it is desirable that the adjustment of the tension of the rods D should be secured by adjusting the bars 0, as this secures a uniform adj ustmentof the bars and avoids the work incident to separate adjustmentof each rod, the bars 0 may be supported in fixed position on the beams by any suitable means, and adjustment of the tension of the rods be secured otherwise. Thus in Fig. 5 the bars 0 are supported by hangers 12, which are simply hooked over the flanges of the beams with no provision for adjustment, and the rods D are adjusted by means of turnbuckles l3.

The adjustment of the tension of the rods by adjusting the hangers at the flanges of the beams forms a part of the invention independently of the use of the bars G, and it will be understood that when the partition follows the line of a single beam or whenthe beams are close together, so that a rod for each beam is sufficient, the bars 0 may be omitted, although in the former case they are preferably used, as less hangers need then be employed and the tension of a series of rods D maybe adjusted at one operation. A construction omitting the bars G is shown in Fig. (3, in which hangers 13 are used, similar to those shown in Figs. 1 to 4, and employing the same clip 11, except that the loop 2 in the hangers may be and is shown as omitted, the rod D being simply hooked over the wire hangers.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made in the details of the construction shown without departing from my invention, and I am not to be limited to the form of plastersupporting frame shown nor to the exact construction or form of any of the parts illustrated.

hat is claimed is 1. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of bars supported. thereby parallel with the floor or ceiling, a plaster supporting frame supported by said bars, and means for adjusting the tension on said frame, substan tially as described.

2. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, bars supported by said hangers parallel with the floor or ceiling, and a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said bars, substantially as described.

3. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, bars supported by said hangers parallel with the floor or ceiling, a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said bars, and means for adjusting the tension on the frame, substantially as described.

4. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, bars supported by said hangers parallel with the floor or ceiling, a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said bars, and means for adjusting the position of the bars to adjust the tension on the frame, substanti ally as described.

5. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, bars supported by said hangers parallel with the floor or ceiling and extending transversely to the beams, a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said bars, and means for adjusting the position of the bars to adjust the tension on the frame, substantially as described.

(5. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said hangers, and means for adjusting the hangers to adjust the tension on the frame, substantially as described.

7. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers supported by the beams, bars supported by said hangers parallel with the floor or ceiling and extending transversely to the beams, a plaster supporting partition frame supported by said bars, and means for adjusting the hangers to adjust the tension on the frame, substantially as described.

8. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of bars 0 supported by said beams, rods D hooked over and supported by said bars, and metallic lathin g carried by said rods, substantially as described.

9. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of bars 0 extending transversely to said beams, rods D hooked over and supported by said bars, and metallic lathing carried by said rods, substantially as described.

10. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of bars 0 supported by said beams, rods D supported by said bars, metallic lathing carried by said rods, and means for adjusting said bars relatively to the beams for adjusting the tension of the rods D, substantially as described.

11. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of bars 0, hangers supported by the flanges of the beams and supporting said bars, said hangers being adjustable to change the position of said bars relatively to the beams, rods D supported by said bars, and metallic lathing carried by said rods, substantially as described.

12. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers 1O hooked over one flange of the beams, clips 11 on the other flange of the beams and in which the other ends of the hangers are adjustably supported, bars C supported by said hangers, rods D supported by said bars, and metallic lathin g carried by said rods, substantially as described.

13. The combination with floor and ceiling beams, of hangers 1O hooked over one flange of the beams, clips 11 on the other flange of the beams and in which the other ends of the hangers are adj ustably supported, and a plaster supporting frame supported by said hangers, substantially as described.

14:. The combination with the beams A, of wire hangers 1O hooked over one flange of. the beams, clips 11 on the other flange of the beams through which the other ends of the hangers are passed, bars 0 supported bysaid hangers, and nuts at for tightening the hangers, substantially as described.

15. The combination with the beam A, of wire hanger 10 hooked over one flange of the beam, clip 11 on the other flange of the beam through which the other end of the hanger is passed, and nut 4 for adjusting the hanger, substantially as described.

16. The combination with the beam A, of clip 11 on one flange of the beam, hanger 10 having one end adjustable in the clip and the other end hooked over the other flange of the beam, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. ORR. Witnesses EDWIN W. ARNOLD, H. N. CoRNING. 

